Quentin Dempster

Australia

Journalist, Writer and Presenter at ABC News (Australia)

Journalist and author

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Articles

Quentin Dempster. Rupert Murdoch destroys freedom of the press.

1 month ago | johnmenadue.com | Quentin Dempster

August 25, 2015 In a recent address to the Medico-Legal Society of NSW, Quentin Dempster has referred to the parlous state of journalism and the media and particularly the damage being caused by Rupert Murdoch and News Corp. It is a no-holds barred speech about the damage that Rupert Murdoch is doing. See link to the speech below. John Menadue. www.facebook.com/quentindempster
Last chance saloon: ABC crucial to the survival of local TV production

1 month ago | johnmenadue.com | Quentin Dempster

A new report commissioned by the ABC reveals that the public broadcaster’s local productions contribute at least $744 million to the Australian economy. With global video streamers capturing more and more Australian eyeballs, the ABC has emerged as perhaps a last chance saloon for original local drama, documentary and entertainment programs.
QUENTIN DEMPSTER. Catholic Church duplicitous and unaccountable in needs-based school funding says Malcolm Turnbull

1 month ago | johnmenadue.com | Quentin Dempster

Quentin Dempster QUENTIN DEMPSTER. Catholic Church duplicitous and unaccountable in needs-based school funding says Malcolm Turnbull May 3, 2020 Former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull has detailed private conversations with a Catholic Church leader to substantiate claims that the church has been duplicitous and unaccountable in distributing taxpayer money within its school system.
Assange: Still waiting for your right to know

1 month ago | johnmenadue.com | Quentin Dempster

Were all still waiting for your right to know. The right of the public in our democracies to know whats really going on is being tested at this very moment at the Old Bailey in Merry England.
QUENTIN DEMPSTER supports Pearls and Irritations.

1 month ago | johnmenadue.com | Quentin Dempster

Pearls & Irritations has become an exploratory platform for thinkers and analysts out to both share their insights and knowledge and test themselves against an informed peer group. In that way, John Menadues website adds real value across all aspects of Australias governance and policy development. It has become an antidote to mainstream medias propensity for populism, prejudice and exploitable ignorance.
QUENTIN DEMPSTER. BuzzFeed out: So much for diversity in Australias media

1 month ago | johnmenadue.com | Quentin Dempster

Two years after Australias competition watchdog green lighted the biggest consolidation of media ownership here in more than 40 years, the withdrawal of online start-up BuzzFeed has exposed its misjudgment. In 2018 BuzzFeed, which started here in 2014, was put up as a burgeoning media diversity justification for the historic approval the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission gave to the merger of Fairfax Media and Nine Entertainment.
QUENTIN DEMPSTER. Let er rip!: Snowy 2.0 project now an integrity test for Gladys Berejiklian

1 month ago | johnmenadue.com | Quentin Dempster

The New South Wales Berejiklian Government now faces an integrity test over the fast tracking of final approval for the Snowy 2.0 pumped hydro electricity project in Kosciuszko National Park. Desperate to create jobs in a COVID-19 recovery strategy NSW is preparing to green light 24 so-called shovel ready infrastructure and property development projects.
QUENTIN DEMPSTER. Michelle Guthrie's strategic plan for the ABC.

1 month ago | johnmenadue.com | Quentin Dempster

New ABC managing director Michelle Guthrie now faces a choice. She can simply manage the ABCs government-decreed decline or reorganise its resources to make distinctive, original and quality content the institutions strategic priority. The choice she (and the ABC board which appointed her) make will become apparent when the ABC publishes its updated corporate plan. This is the key publicly posted document promulgated by the board which sets the resourcing and content priorities.
QUENTIN DEMPSTER. Mass media power plays and the death of Fairfax

1 month ago | johnmenadue.com | Quentin Dempster

The competition regulator ACCC has now green-lighted the death of Fairfax Media Ltd., the governance entity what has been a foundational influence on public interest journalism in Australia since 1831. This is the biggest shakeup in Australian mass media ownership since the Hawke-Keating government allowed Rupert Murdoch to take over the Herald and Weekly Times newspaper conglomerate in 1987.
QUENTIN DEMPSTER. Now only 4 cents a day: ABC Board planning public campaign

1 month ago | johnmenadue.com | Quentin Dempster

A meeting of the ABC board in Sydney on Thursday is expected to plan a roadshow campaign to take its case for triennial funding to the public. While avoiding inflammatory dispute with the Turnbull Government over its recently announced budget cuts of $83.7million to operational funding through an indexation freeze, and uncertainty over $43million in tied funding, the board is preparing to step up its advocacy.